You know it’s like when some bozo tells you a long, long joke and after a bit you find you can’t focus? As he labors on towards the end and finally grinds to a half, someone nudges you with an elbow and hisses, ” It’s over! Laugh already! You’re so rude!”
That’s what Delhi 6 was like, roughly. I have to admit I couldn’t make it to the end. I tried bravely, several times, but couldn’t manage. Every now and then I would rap myself on the knuckles and tell myself, okay, that’s the story now.. But then I’d give it a few moments and we’d have veered into some by lane to be treated to another snippet of Delhi life. Except that it isn’t the Delhi I know at all.
The basic Delhi 6 idea isn’t a bad one. Painting a picture of the pin code 6 area of the older part of capital city? Great thought. But right from the start, the movie has no traction. There’s nothing but random quaint colorful stuff going on with nothing to glue it together. There’s nothing to make you care. There’s nothing to involve, engage, impassion. Just when you think there’s something actually beginning to happen, we break for a song or a snippet of Ram Lila or something else unrelated.
Delhi 6 is a super-contrived mish-mash pish-posh of anticlimaxes strung together by a bunch of faces that begin to be remotely familiar.
A lot of good actors wasted for want of dialogues with some impact, some good editing and overall execution… Dev D presents a better picture of Delhi then Delhi 6 even attempted .. and we sure could have done without the black monkey analogy for our prejudices and fears especially since the dialogue that was to lay it down for us was sooooo tepid that one wondered what changed the hearts of the rioters.. certainly not the drab dialogue delivery of the ever-suffering Gobar.. must be that they all got as disillusioned with rioting as we did with the film.
Oh… was the editing good? It all looked so haphazard to me. And totally didn’t match up to the noise made about it.
Ok then, it goes off my “To Watch” list…sad how you so look forward to a movie and then it fails to pull off even an average rating…sigh!
Well… others will come along, fortunately!